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I had a dream that I was one of a group of adventurers. Final-Fantasy style adventurers, meaning that my weapon, for example, was an umbrella. With an Iron Tip replacing the previous Claw Tip. One of the other party members used a 'claw hammer' as their weapon, which was a mace-like thing with two generic animal feet in place of hammer faces.
( The Epic Quest! )
In addition, unrelated to the dream, last night I played my stone/dark brute for a bit, and... ugh. x.x
Stone melee got hit really hard by the nerf bat. Well, as far as brutes are concerned. All the activation times were increased.
brawl: 0.67 -> 0.83
stone fist: 0.57 -> 0.83
stone mallet: 1.07 -> 1.6
heavy mallet: 1.1 -> 1.63
And I know the fucking apologists are going to go 'you won't even notice half a second, you whiner!' but (a) that's not actually true, it's really noticeable, and (b) I notice it *most* in my fury bar, which never got above half, and spent most of the time below 25%.
Do you want to know how much damage a brute does with an average of 25% fury? Play a dominator.
/dark armor is also very dominator-like -- if everything works perfectly, you keep things locked down and they don't hit you (this doesn't really help your fury either). If you get tohit debuffed, or slowed, or end-drained, or just miss too much, your health drops like a rock and you probably die before dark regen finishes animating (it's a HUGE heal, but it's not a very *fast* heal).
Dominators are a lot better at being dominators than brutes are. I think I might wait another 57 days before playing Gnomorre again.
( The Epic Quest! )
In addition, unrelated to the dream, last night I played my stone/dark brute for a bit, and... ugh. x.x
Stone melee got hit really hard by the nerf bat. Well, as far as brutes are concerned. All the activation times were increased.
brawl: 0.67 -> 0.83
stone fist: 0.57 -> 0.83
stone mallet: 1.07 -> 1.6
heavy mallet: 1.1 -> 1.63
And I know the fucking apologists are going to go 'you won't even notice half a second, you whiner!' but (a) that's not actually true, it's really noticeable, and (b) I notice it *most* in my fury bar, which never got above half, and spent most of the time below 25%.
Do you want to know how much damage a brute does with an average of 25% fury? Play a dominator.
/dark armor is also very dominator-like -- if everything works perfectly, you keep things locked down and they don't hit you (this doesn't really help your fury either). If you get tohit debuffed, or slowed, or end-drained, or just miss too much, your health drops like a rock and you probably die before dark regen finishes animating (it's a HUGE heal, but it's not a very *fast* heal).
Dominators are a lot better at being dominators than brutes are. I think I might wait another 57 days before playing Gnomorre again.
